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If you are an Ottawa Senators fan, please read this.
If you’ll allow me to rant for a moment — Being a Leafs fan in Ottawa is no piece of cake, but I’m constantly astounded by the ignorance fans here. Ottawa fans — not all, but many — have a serious deep-seeded inferiority complex when it comes to the Leafs (primarily due to the fact that they simply can’t beat Toronto in the playoffs), and they’re busting at the seams to prove it every chance they get. It’s almost mind-boggling how clueless some of them are about the game in general, but at least it gives me an opportunity to hear some novel excuses in the morning.
One small example from a multitude of options, if you’ll indulge me further: Near the end of the regular season, I was watching a Toronto vs. Ottawa game with a pack of rapid Senators fans. Toronto forward Owen Nolan was seriously injured, and they cheered. How very, very uncool. At the very least, it signals that they don’t care for hockey in and of itself, but rather, have a bone to pick with Toronto.
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Great banner! While I watched my beloved Stars (finally!!!) win tonight, I remarked to a friend that I’d be pulling for the Leafs should an unfortunate thing (which I will not mention for fear of jinxing…) happen to my team. Good luck to the Leafs! :)
A Toronto/Dallas final could work. :)
GO FLAMES! :-p~~~
(Sorry, couldn’t resist…)
Of course, I’d be rooting for my boys… but that would be a great final, I think. :)
P.S. - Your “Remember…” thingy never remembers me. pout
The Avalanche fell apart tonight. It’s too bad they stopped playing the game in the middle of the 2nd period. If Colorado gets knocked out in an unfortunate incident, your Leafs will get my (admittedly somewhat useless) vote.
The Avs have given up in all three games once they felt the cushion of the lead they created. The difference tonight was that the Stars finally snapped out of it and took advantage of the fact that the Avs pulled back. Darn! ;)
Dennis, I was there.
I will now tell the story from my perspective. We were all drinking and / or drunk. One avid Senator fan was in fact significantly drunk due to a recent weight loss that makes him much less resistant of late to the ’sway’ of alcohol. Admittedly, he is anti-Leaf and proud of it. Anyhow,
as you reported, indeed Sens fans did at first celebrate the fact that Nolan had missed a big hit on one of our players and instead seemed to take the worst of it. This only lasted of course until it was realized that he was seriously hurt. Only the aforementioned fan continued to cheer in his boisterous way. This was certainly exagerated as one would expect given his inebriation combined with the inherent tension of any Sens-Leafs match. What you failed to report were the comments of two equally rabid, to use your word, Sens fans: “I hate to see anyone get hurt like that” and ” Man, you can’t cheer for something like that.” In fact I would say that the celebratory comments only outweighed the sympathetic in volume and not number. Paul Martin has a louder voice than most other Canadians so should all of us be judged based on his comments.
Your article and my reply only prove one point: There are two sides to any Leaf-Sens controversy and come July we’ll all be sitting around a campfire talking about something much less controversial. .. … Well, … maybe August.
Maybe so. The comments you reference were an attempt to settle the imminent fission meltdown that was about to occur. It was pretty obvious as far as I’m concerned.
I won’t (and don’t) attempt to hide the fact that those sorts of things really, really piss me off.
Anyhow, I stand by what I wrote (and said).
Dennis:
I lived in Ottawa for 5 years and couldn’t believe the behavior/attitude of some of the Sens fans there when it came to the Leafs. You’ve hit the nail on the head - there is definitely an inferiority complex at work.
I remember going into work one morning and finding an email from the token American in our department. :) He and his wife had a child a few months earlier, and they sent around a photo of the little guy in a leafs outfit, claiming that they were finally becoming Canadian. You wouldn’t believe some of the things that were said by Sens fans in the office that day. I mean c’mon, it was a 4 month old baby.
Moved to BC a few months back. Of course, they’re big into the Canucks out here, but hey - they can still manage to talk about the Leafs civilly in a conversation.
Nope, don’t miss Ottawa Sens fans (or Ottawa drivers) in the least. ;)
Not so much an inferiority complex, as consternation at the Leaf fans and Leaf-biased media who wax poetic over everything a Leaf player does. Do real, knowledgable fans of the GAME of hockey not realize that renting a bunch of geritol-quaffing oldtimers is not in anyway a guarantee that this is the “Leafs Year”?
They are, with the exception of the Islanders, the weakest overall team in the Eastern conference playoffs. In fact, I would extend that description to include the Western Conference. Nothing they have done so far in the playoffs has given me any indication as to the opposite. They are tied 2-2 with the Sens, even though they have sucked every game. Do Leaf fans not SEE this? Can you not see how your team is playing? When Tie Domi is the best, most effective player on your team, you have some serious fucking problems.
Er…just went to the Urban Dictionary site (Definition of Ottawa Senators) that you linked to…um…do you really want to be associated with the illiterate numbnuts who appear to be Leaf fans? I mean, is this what happens to a person mentally when they cheer the Leafs?
Steve: That’s great, but what did it have to do with what I wrote? Thanks for emphasizing my point.
Er…Dennis…well..I posted two comments - one which responded to the “inferiority complex” line, the other to a link you put in your comment in which you suggest that Ottawa Senators fans read this - which was a link to the Urban Dictionary. Now…which one do you feel had nothing to do with what you wrote?